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Christine Turner Merrill

email: ctmerrillATgmailDOTcom 
I think as we talk about making a home, we need certain principles, we need certain skills, and the lack of homemaking skills—and I don’t just mean baking bread—has created, I think, an emotional homelessness that has some of the very same byproducts as street homelessness. People who do not have a place to go that has the Spirit, that has the emotional stability, that has the principles that we’ve been talking about, have a lot of the same problems of despair, of turning to drugs or immorality, that street homeless people have. And we have an opportunity, mothers and fathers working together, to create an environment, to be home makers, to create an environment that will make a home. Home is not just a place; it’s a feeling, and it’s a spirit.

- Susan W. Tanner

Features:

  • A new addition to the Family History section:  the Bryson Family History book!!  Yea!
  • I've started arranging music for Lige - Children's songs and hymns that he likes - in 5-finger, melody only format.  I've shared the non-copyrighted ones with you in the Music section.  If you have a beginning pianist, he or she might enjoy them. 
  • Merry Christmas, everyone!  As impersonal as it is, we would love to share our Christmas letter with you all.  Hope you enjoy it, feel free to drop us an email with news from your family!
  • Read about our canoe campout on the Shenandoah river this fall in Stories, and of course, there are Pics
  • After a really obnoxious leave of absence, the Turner family history book, "Our Turner Heritage" is available again in PDF form on this website.  Happy reading, everyone!
  • See me on the new Mormon.org - I have a profile, I'm so famous :)
  • Are you an above average American?


About me: I live in Oxon Hill, MD.   My husband is a researcher at the Naval Research Lab and I am a stay-at-home mom.  I have a masters degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, and a BSME from Utah State University.  And no, I'm not looking for a job, thanks for asking anyway.  I have 3 children - Lige (7), Ellis (5) and Lillian (3).  I have been a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints all my life, and become more convinced each day that the church really does have the fullness of the Gospel, just as in the days of Christ himself.  I like playing with my computer, sewing, reading the "free events" page on the Washington Post  and shopping at Home Depot. 

I served as a missionary in Quezon City, Philippines for 18 months before I was married, and love all things Filipino.  Here in Maryland, we have a Tagalog Sunday school class that I get to attend, a Filipino market down the street from me, and a Filipino retirement home less than a mile away.  And to think that I used to feel like Tagalog was not a very useful language to speak!
Merrill Family, April 2012